PS102 Lecture Notes - Seat Belt, Applied Behavior Analysis, Determinism
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) due to experience. Behaviourism: approach that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment as a determinant of behaviour, environment determines your behaviour. Conditioning: basic kind of leaning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism"s responses, reward and punishment. Process by which previously neutral stimulus acquires the capability to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. Pavlov"s works with salivation in dogs led to discovery of leaning principles. He was not a psychologist, he was a physiologist. Reflexes and reflexology: dogs would salivate without the food. You need an unconditioned stimulus and an unconditioned response in order for conditioning to happen. Unconditioned stimulus (us: a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. (e. g. food) Unconditioned response (ur: reflexive response elicit by a.
